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Chloe Berger

Amazon’s new RTO mandate is 'a triumph of traditional management over innovative management,' says former Google exec

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Laszlo Bock, consultant and former Google senior executive, likened Andy Jassy’s demand that Amazon employees spend five days a week in the office to ordering the usual at a restaurant. 

Say the hamburger is your pick of choice at the regular joint and you all of a sudden go for the grilled chicken, Bock suggested. The chicken turns out to be okay, “no better than the hamburger, it’s no worse.” Naturally, you’ll revert back to the burger, or the norm.

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